Hi everyone,
We have some good and some bad news for you. First, the bad news:
Wikimedia Deutschland will not host the Wikimedia Summit in April 2022. We believe that the global pandemic will not allow for safe and equitable travel for participants, especially from regions outside of Europe and North America.
The good news is twofold: We will not cancel but postpone the Summit, and are currently aiming for the second half of the year, around September 2022. We will continue working with the Wikimedia Foundation on the next steps and keep you all updated about the situation. We surely look very much forward to welcoming many of you to Berlin in the not too distant future.
On top of that, we are in conversations with the Movement Strategy and Governance team at the Wikimedia Foundation about the possibility to use the originally blocked dates (1-3 April 2022) for a working meeting of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee in Berlin. This meeting could be complemented by some online auditoria, additional hybrid sessions, where the committee could collect insights and feedback from across the movement.
There is really not more to share about this right now, but we wanted to make sure to provide an early update on what we are currently thinking and talking about. More information will be shared in the coming weeks and months, so please stay tuned.
All the best Nicole
Hello
Thank you for this information Nicole.
I think it is important for the other conference organizers to be aware of this change so that they anticipate with regards to calendar (right now... for example... wikiarabia, wikiindaba and wikiconvention francophone are already quite packed).
Otherwise, a meeting for the drafting committee looks like a very good idea to me.
Flo
Le 18/10/2021 à 16:29, Nicole Ebber a écrit :
Hi everyone,
We have some good and some bad news for you. First, the bad news:
Wikimedia Deutschland will not host the Wikimedia Summit in April 2022. We believe that the global pandemic will not allow for safe and equitable travel for participants, especially from regions outside of Europe and North America.
The good news is twofold: We will not cancel but postpone the Summit, and are currently aiming for the second half of the year, around September 2022. We will continue working with the Wikimedia Foundation on the next steps and keep you all updated about the situation. We surely look very much forward to welcoming many of you to Berlin in the not too distant future.
On top of that, we are in conversations with the Movement Strategy and Governance team at the Wikimedia Foundation about the possibility to use the originally blocked dates (1-3 April 2022) for a working meeting of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee in Berlin. This meeting could be complemented by some online auditoria, additional hybrid sessions, where the committee could collect insights and feedback from across the movement.
There is really not more to share about this right now, but we wanted to make sure to provide an early update on what we are currently thinking and talking about. More information will be shared in the coming weeks and months, so please stay tuned.
All the best Nicole
Dear Nicole, The Italian-speaking community is organizing the itwikicon on September 30th - October 2nd 2022 It would be wonderful if the Wikimedia Summit can be planned in a different week. Thanks and my very best regards iolanda
— Iolanda Pensa, Ph.D. President Wikimedia Italia
Il giorno 18 ott 2021, alle ore 16:29, Nicole Ebber nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de ha scritto:
Hi everyone,
We have some good and some bad news for you. First, the bad news:
Wikimedia Deutschland will not host the Wikimedia Summit in April 2022. We believe that the global pandemic will not allow for safe and equitable travel for participants, especially from regions outside of Europe and North America.
The good news is twofold: We will not cancel but postpone the Summit, and are currently aiming for the second half of the year, around September 2022. We will continue working with the Wikimedia Foundation on the next steps and keep you all updated about the situation. We surely look very much forward to welcoming many of you to Berlin in the not too distant future.
On top of that, we are in conversations with the Movement Strategy and Governance team at the Wikimedia Foundation about the possibility to use the originally blocked dates (1-3 April 2022) for a working meeting of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee in Berlin. This meeting could be complemented by some online auditoria, additional hybrid sessions, where the committee could collect insights and feedback from across the movement.
There is really not more to share about this right now, but we wanted to make sure to provide an early update on what we are currently thinking and talking about. More information will be shared in the coming weeks and months, so please stay tuned.
All the best Nicole
-- Nicole Ebber Director Movement Strategy and Global Relations
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